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p.s. Hey. Thanks a lot for answering the favorite singer question. Really interesting. If there had been an awards ceremony at the end the question, it seems like Nico would be bowing right now. ** L@rstonovich, Ha ha, I haven't forgotten. If I can do it, you'll get it. I think maybe Soundcloud would be the easiest. I'll figure it with some more tech minded person's help. Gibby Haynes, that's a good one. Neil too, obviously. ** Pilgarlic, Yeah, tough question. I liked it because it seemed like the question was about the answerers' hearts more than about their minds, but, hm, I don't know. ** Daniel Portland, Hey, Daniel! The Pattster! ** Laurabeth, Hey. Oh, no big. I was just caught by surprise and suffering from jetlag-related 'wha?' stuff. Yeah, so, I guess we should sort out a time for the 9th. When will you be in the city? Will you be downtown at some point? Meeting up down in this general area somewhere is probably best for me. ** Colin, Hi, Colin. Oh, I stumbled across your review of 'Hate' yesterday. Really interesting. I've just kind of started reading that book. Anyway, I want link people up to it, and so I will. Everyone, the wonderful d.l. and writer Colin Herd has newly reviewed the much talked about, recently translated French novel 'Hate' by Tristan Garcia over at 3AM Magazine, and it's very fine and worth a read. Do so by clicking this. ** Allesfliesst, Hey, K. Interesting criteria on the singer choice. Yeah, me too, I think. Also, a very interesting and cryptic and big-feeling revelation there. Sounds like an evolver. ** Alan, Hi. I don't know why, but Bowie is an unexpected, curious answer from you for me. I don't know why the surprise since I didn't have any idea of who you might particularly like. Anyway, your answer had a nice pop. ** Patrick deWitt, Oh, that's interesting. I'll be curious to see the anecdote and how it works with your novel. Yeah, your book is going to live in my book's presumed neighborhood, Harper Collins, right? Maybe they'd send me one to be neighborly. ** David Ehrenstein, Hey. Oh, good, sounds like your quotes in the article will have France all a'twitter. Excellent. I think RE must live in Paris nowadays. Yury is constantly seeing him and his scary, tight face at this fashion event and that. Clooney? People still think he's gay? That's rather odd. ** Changeling, Hey! Copying, ha ha? No, of course I think everyone in their right minds would pick GP as best singer since he's mine. A decoy cow? Like ... lifesize? Yeah, man, not only is it okay if you send a chapter for the workshop soon, it would be fantastic and an honor and so on. Yes, anytime you're ready, that would be great. Thanks! ** David, Robert Wyatt, yeah, sure, wow, good call. ** Sypha, Yeah, pausing to refresh the inspiration bank is awfully important sometimes. It's like ... having just finished my novel, I'm in the novel mood, and part of me wants to dive in and start a new one right now, but waiting and letting something as completely new as possible have time to break into into my fascinations and then gel is the wiser choice, I think. Don't want to end up just cranking out a variation on what one usually does and risk diminishing returns a la, well, maybe Palahniuk, for instance. ** Alexp336, Makes sense about Nintendo waiting for its own special announcement/ event. Talking about gadgets can be as exciting as talking about sex and lit, I think, but I'm both weird and my boyfriend Yury is one of those people for whom sites like Mac Rumors, et. al, are porn. So, I'm accustomed. The magic cabinet sounds cool. Yeah, with my magic trick fascination when I was young, it was really mostly about just having the tricks in my possession and handling them and things. Oh, yeah, if you guys make that Paris trip, do steal away from the Arc for a coffee or something. That would be cool. ** Jose, Great, I'll google it today, I think, since it's kind of my day off, sort of. Great news about the novel redraft, and, naturally, your thesis sounds incredibly enticing. Totally up my alley and super sparkly. ** 'Matt', Hi, Matt! Welcome! Sure, I remember meeting and talking to you. Oh, man, I'm so bad with email. I'll go look for yours today. Really, I just get so lost when it comes to correspondence. It's terrible. You could send to Gisele via snail mail, but ... I'll go look for your email when I finish the p.s., and I'll refresh my memory and answer you there. Sorry. Great you liked 'Topology'. Amazing, right? ** Ken Baumann, Ken! I loved your winnowing down the singer/ thoughts in motion paragraph. That was nice. Yeah, asap I'll figure out how to get you the Pollard comp. I think maybe uploading it somewhere where you can download it is the way to go once someone tells me how to do that. Best! ** Tomkendall, Wonderful response to Math's piece, man. Just lovely. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hey, Jeff. I think I'm probably not going to be able to make it to the show today, which sucks. I think I have to do this business-y meeting thing that can only happen around then during the time that I'm here. If I can make a last minute switch, and I'm trying, I'll just show up there. I sure hope so. ** Steevee, Hey. Weird about your computer. Well, here's hoping it has run out of secret games to play with you. Sandy Denny, yeah, nice. I'll have to rent 'Kaboom' at some point, I guess. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Oh, sure, I know that Gary Lee Boas book. It's wonderful. His other, earlier book is really great too. Actually, those books exist at all thanks hugely to one of our d.l.s, Hedi. Really nice, eclectic fave singers list. From Nico to Sylvester ... trippy. ** Math, Hey, pal. Great and extremely deserved response here yesterday. It really is a beautiful and snaky and heart-tugging piece, my friend. More does seem like an awfully good idea. Cool, email me, and we'll figure something out. ** Polter, Hi, there. Glam rock voices, yeah. Even though I was never that into his music, I used to really like Steve Harley's arching, strained, stuffed-up nose voice. Understood about the typing/ replanting thing. That doesn't have to be a prettying process, though. It can be a lot about what happens when your face and voice are removed from what you say and finding a way for the words to be your new face and voice. Or something. Friendship is just about the greatest and most inexplicable and powerless and mysterious thing ever. Amazing. ** Rigby, Hey, Rigs. Gavin Friday, good one. And Piaf .. wow, I didn't think about her. Man, is she intense. You good? ** Magick Mike, Hey, man. Great to see you. I don't know why the popular choice of Nico felt so unexpected. It makes so much sense. Hm, I don't know. ** Catachrestic, Hi, J! What's going on, man? How are you? What's new? Mark E Smith, sure, yeah, excellent. ** Bill, Hey. The plan at one time was that the novel would come out this fall, but I don't know if that's still operable since I missed my deadline by a bit, and the approval from the top is still a question mark. But that's the best case scenario. David Grubbs, hunh, that's a good one, yeah. You fly back tomorrow, right? I wish you leg room, a nap, and in-flight entertainment galore. ** Andrew, They're saying it's going to start snowing here today too. I'm so totally unprepared on the clothing front. Scary. Yeah, the apocalypse. Now it has spread to Italy, if you didn't hear. Collapsing birds there too. It is a bit unnerving, even without the Biblical overtones, I must say. ** Amccartney, Hi, Alistair. Oh, Chan Marshall, wow, totally. Cheers to you too, man. ** Misanthrope, I will. Check out Bourdain. Yeah, the snowy thing is a bit ominous. It isn't snowing yet, but the sky looks really spooky today. Text me when you're in. Oh, you've launched your Mark Dennison finale?! No, really?! This is it?! Okay, I'll tiptoe over there and see how it ends later. Everyone, the legendary Misanthrope's legendary blog/story The Autobiography of Mark Dennison is at its end, I'm afraid to say. The last ever post is now posted, and we will have to learn to love without it refreshing occasionally. Please go over there and pay your respects and see how all of its magnificent wooliness concludes, please. Sigh. ** Creative Massacre, That recipe sounds delish. Yeah, see what you think. Seitan is pretty great stuff, I think, and flexible, and it makes a really good, hearty centerpiece for vegetarian or began main dishes. Sad about the WWE. I might get to take a look for the first time in ages 'cos I have SyFy where I'm staying. I'll keep my hopes very low. ** Frank Jaffe, Hi, Frank! Oh, yes, I can imagine your busyness. Good busyness, though, I bet. Oh, you got 'Dennis'. It's a eclectic thing, isn't it. Your boyfriend is an awfully nice guy. I hope I'll get to meet him sometime. Hm, no, I can't recall that stopping after twenty minutes of 'Satyricon' thing happening before, but, yeah, I guess by the twenty minute point, it has announced fully what it is, and if people are looking for something usual, by then they know they're fucked, I guess. It's one of those 'separate the men from the boys' movies, I guess. I see 'EtV' as being like that too. Pommes Frites is still in my immediate future, yum. Wow, that's cheap for the ltd. ed' 'Sluts'. So much for the valuable collectors item aspect, I guess, oops. ** Armando, It's true, I knew you were going to say Mr. Cobain. A very fine choice, of course. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Hey. The weather turned scary today. Snow is coming. Maybe lots of it. Pray for my holey Paul Smith tennis shoes and me, please. Yeah, the goat has to be defrosted, cleaned out, blow-dried, and other stuff starting about four hours before the performance. One of the dancers, poor Arturo, who's also the one who, uh 'dances' with the goat onstage, has the charming job of having to do that. No, I finished my donut before I realized I had SyFy. And you know what really sucks is that ever since I found out I have SyFy, it has been playing a non-stop marathon of episodes of 'The Ghost Whisperer', which is, you know, not exactly what I had in mind. Hm, do cats feel happiness in the sense that we understand happiness? Do you know? I don't. I guess I always figure they either feel content or they feel not content, but I don't know anything. What a dramatic several minutes you had there at Starbucks. It was jam-packed, and it also had a cliffhanger, i.e, what will the barista say to you the next time you enter. Lisa Kudrow has a new TV show? I love Lisa Kudrow. I'm going to look for that. My day: I had the early afternoon free, and I thought I might go walk all over the place, book shop, see what's going on, and I started to, but it was freezing outside in this way I'm not used to or prepared for in terms of my outfit. I think it's the windiness that NYC has. So, I didn't get too far, just bought some food supplies, and ended up coming back here and working a bit, and turning on SyFy once in a while in hopes they wouldn't still be showing 'The Ghost Whisperer', but, of course, they were. (I just interrupted my day report to go look out the window, and it has started snowing, and I'm so doomed. Yikes.) Where was I? Oh, so, I didn't do too much until I went out to the rehearsal. It went fine. We were just working on little parts of things, tuning them up. We could really have used another rehearsal today, but there's no space available, so I hope nothing goes completely haywire at the first show tomorrow because that's the show where most of the big curators of theater venues around the world are attending, and, like I said, we're really hoping to get a European and/or US tour out of these shows. Gulp. When the rehearsal was over, it was late-ish, and I was still jetlagged yesterday -- I think I'm over the hump today -- so I scurried back here, turned on SyFy, saw 'The Ghost Whisperer', switched to MSNBC, ate, got sleepy, slept. That's all yesterday wrote, I'm afraid. I'll see if I can manage to do something on my day off today without freezing to death under a mound of snow, and, if I survive, I'll tell you about it tomorrow. And your Friday was ... ? ** Paul Curran, Yeah, man, I want yours to blow my mind before mine, uh, does whatever it's going to do, so ... make haste not waste? What an awful saying that is. You should listen to more Cheap Trick. Well, they're one of my all-time favorite bands, is what I'm saying. The first four or five albums are god. The rest are godlike at most times. Get their first album first, if you end up trying them. Self-titled, black and white cover. ** Empty Frame, Hey, man! Great to see you! You have a lot of favorite singers, and it's such a good batch. Not to mention your 2010 lists. Lip-smacking good. Cool you liked the magic post. Yeah, agreed about funerals. You might like my new novel. It's kind of semi-full of that kind of idea. Yeah, money, dude, ugh. The stress around not having enough money is worse than the lack of money, which is bad enough. But to speak of it is to stress about it so have a commiserating hug instead. Oh, you're writing, very cool. Great titles, obviously. Thanks for the luck. I'll take yours, and you take mine. See you soon, I hope. ** Brendan, Whoo hoo! It's official! Are you physically out of there now or easing your body out? You having a farewell party? Anyway, excellence incarnate, that news. Loved your zigagging favorite singers list. The whiplash was a pleasure. ** Scunnard, Hey. NYC was fine and dandy until it got freezing cold last night and started snowing about twenty minutes ago. From now on, it'll be a crapshoot. You're live and ready to go? Okey doke. Oh, I don't know, public ... I guess it's better. Sure, it's better. Mysterious sets and numbers of eyes looking at things you do is good. Sure, it's good. Enjoy. Everyone, d.l. and superior artist Scunnard is one of the minds and hands behind a really, really interesting new site/blog called Critical Line, and not only is it terrific in and of itself, it also seeks input and participation from you and you and you, if you like. In any case, I implore you -- not that I need to -- to click that link and go over and familiarize yourself with the site then read/ visit and/or get involved. Thanks. Man, if there's a way for this blog to alert people further to the site via posts or to collaborate in some way or ... I don't know, whatever feels right on your end, I'd love to. Kudos! ** Okay, done. The post: another one of those stacks of images/things that seem to interest me enough to put them in a proper place. Or something. Enjoy, I hope. I will see you tomorrow.
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